Donald Duck - How to Have an Accident at Work (1959)
Give Fate a break…it’s not his fault!
Also: Donald has a son! (I think he was just acting).
With all the machinery and chemicals used at Disneyland, I’m surprised this cartoon wasn’t part of my training there.
Songs of the National Parks, narrated by Thurl Ravenscroft with Stan Jones and the Ranger Chorus. Download the album here.
Thurl. As in:
That was all I needed to see before clicking on the download link.
The Warehouse of Unwanted & Forgotten Things
I’ve been loving the WDW Parks & Rumors forum on the WDWMagic boards lately. There’s a lot of interesting discussion on past attractions and where pieces of them are today. The link above is to someone’s personal Flikr account with some shots of a warehouse in Kissimmee that Disney uses to store props and materials from old attractions, etc. I had heard a rumor that Disney actually still has all the animatronics and sets from the original Journey Into Imagination, and they simply just need to put them all back. While in reality, a lot of the animatronics/props were sent to be used for other purposes at the other parks, there still seems to be some validity to the rumors! Check out the photo of the collection of original Figment AA’s, supposedly gathering dust in a local warehouse. The thread I found these on is kinda old, but it resurfaced again with some somewhat up-to-date reports that everything is still there.
Want to know something even crazier? The stage for Kitchen Kaberet/Food Rocks! is actually still there in The Land. When they built Soar’n, they just put up walls in front of the stage and built around it. The AA’s are gone, but the set is still there in some sort of half-demolished state. Crazy! I can’t understand why they have left it in there. Word also says that Cranium Command and Body Wars are still relatively intact and rotting behind-the-scenes. Just blows my mind.
Could you imagine how much I’d lose my mind if I could somehow come to own any of these relics? Hey Disney, if you don’t want them, let the geeks feast upon their discarded childhood!
I guess you never know when you may need these things for spare parts.
Donald Duck soft drinks were the first sodas to be produced by General Beverages, Inc. of Chattanooga, Tennessee. They were licensed by the Double Cola Company to produce the Donald Duck line. These fruit flavored sodas were introduced in the 1940s and included flavors such as Lemon Lime, Grape, Orange, Strawberry, Black Cherry, Root Beer, Cola and Ginger Ale. Donald Duck Soda was released in both bottles and cone-top cans, and later, punch-tab cans. The brand was discontinued in the late 1950s.
The Gnome Mobile Theme Song w/Opening Credits (1967)
A ‘lost’ composition by Buddy Baker, as well as a song by The Sherman Brothers. Not quite a Disney classic.
Looks like Jane and Michael Banks got kidnapped.
The Merrily Song - Wind In the Willows
Memories of standing in line for Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.
